Stay at Home Mum

Sweet Potato Casserole With Crunchy Topping is a baked side dish with a soft sweet potato filling and a golden pecan and oat crumble. It is popular in American home cooking, particularly at Thanksgiving, where sweet potato often appears beside the roast. For an Australian family meal, it also makes sense at Christmas, when you […]

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Sunglasses for kids are one of those things most parents buy from the servo on the way to the beach, lose within a week, and buy again. Which is fine for one hot afternoon. Less fine when you’re talking about the actual eye protection your child needs through an Australian childhood. Here’s a straight-talking guide […]

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Kids’ toys are getting expensive. And when you’ve got birthdays, Christmas, school holidays and the occasional “Mum, can I PLEASE have this?” to deal with, it doesn’t take long for the toy budget to get completely out of hand. The good news is that you don’t have to pay full price for everything your kids […]

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Christmas has a funny way of sneaking up on you. One minute you’re buying Halloween lollies, and the next you’re standing in a packed supermarket wondering why every single person in Australia suddenly needs cream, prawns and a packet of serviettes. And somehow, you’re supposed to remember the Christmas presents, teacher gifts, school concerts, family […]

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Every Christmas, we tell ourselves the same thing: This year, we’re going to be sensible with the presents. Then December rolls around, the kids start dropping hints about toys that cost more than our weekly grocery shop, and suddenly we’re standing in a shopping centre wondering whether a plastic dinosaur that roars is really worth […]

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